Even the usually sedate Dawn chimes into the Shoaib Akhtar, Inzamam drama. Here, quoting sources within the selectors and the PCB, Dawn's sports reporter reports that Shoaib was willfully and directly shoved aside by Inzamam, and ignored throughout the training camp. On top of comments brought here previously, it seems quiet possible to put together a likely chain of events.
Inzamam was not happy with Shoaib Akhtar, and after the doping scandal, he felt that Shoaib Akhtar did not fit in to the squad he feels he has fashioned over the past few years. Victories over the West Indies in tests and ODIs probably cemented in Inzamam's mind, that the fast bowling was deep enough that the absence of Shoaib, while it might hurt a little, would not be significant enough to result in a whole-scale collapse. Hence, while Bob Woolmer is away, and there is a new Chairman of the PCB, Inzamam felt it suitable to exert his influence to push Shoaib Akhtar aside under the guise of lack of fitness.
This has to be pushed aside, and Shoaib Akhtar brought back into the squad, under one guise or another. He is too good and too threatening to be shoved aside like this.
Inzamam was not happy with Shoaib Akhtar, and after the doping scandal, he felt that Shoaib Akhtar did not fit in to the squad he feels he has fashioned over the past few years. Victories over the West Indies in tests and ODIs probably cemented in Inzamam's mind, that the fast bowling was deep enough that the absence of Shoaib, while it might hurt a little, would not be significant enough to result in a whole-scale collapse. Hence, while Bob Woolmer is away, and there is a new Chairman of the PCB, Inzamam felt it suitable to exert his influence to push Shoaib Akhtar aside under the guise of lack of fitness.
This has to be pushed aside, and Shoaib Akhtar brought back into the squad, under one guise or another. He is too good and too threatening to be shoved aside like this.
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